Re:Ask HN: What is with the new URLs on facebook.com?
by rurp on Saturday July 16, 2022 @05:28PM
(#32122142)
So we should just give up? Yes it's a hard problem trying to regulate the behavior of companies with the resources and determination to subvert consumer rights, but it's not binary, incremental progress is possible. If you have ideas for a better approach perhaps you could share them here.
Re:Ask HN: What is with the new URLs on facebook.com?
by wahnfrieden on Saturday July 16, 2022 @07:06PM
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there are more radical options than incremental reform under a widening power imbalance
Re:Ask HN: What is with the new URLs on facebook.com?
by akagusu on Sunday July 17, 2022 @05:38AM
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One of many benefits of posting "this should be illegal" is that it exposes what people think about the problem.
We think the problem is just the big corp circumventing moral, ethics and even law for make a profit, but how many people here support this behavior?
We are not only talking about people working there, but people from the outside, completely unrelated, telling they are right and that they should keep doing what they are doing.
Maybe we can not fight big corps because they have all the money and power, but people, we definitely can fight them.
Re:Ask HN: What is with the new URLs on facebook.com?
by wahnfrieden on Sunday July 17, 2022 @07:45AM
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another way to put it is that even if there isn't consensus on a legal solution (particularly when those kind of solutions involve state power and violence), it's fine to express and promote a moral stance
Not to mention the giant groups of people working at FAANG here, directly complicit with this behavior, afraid their salary and stock options will tank if anything changes.
Companies have the willpower and money to fight any sort of check on their power, well after the rest of us are all beyond exhausted.